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The VCU Office of Faculty Affairs invites you and your faculty colleagues to attend a workshop, Unconscious Bias in the Classroom. The workshop will be led by guest speaker Leslie Traub and will focus on how these unconscious or implicit biases manifest in educational settings, particularly with respect to the expectations of teachers and students.

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Faculty: as you are aware, the Title IX training called “Not Anymore” with additional content for employees is required of all employees — faculty and staff as well as student workers and part-time wage employees. It will take approximately 45 minutes to complete and should be completed by April 30, 2016 in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Access the employee Title IX training.

VCU is also embracing the Denim Day Campaign as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. To show solidarity with survivors at VCU and across the globe, all faculty and staff are encouraged to wear blue jeans to work on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016. Throughout April, a number of events will be occurring in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The Wellness Resource Center offers on-campus, confidential support for survivors and allies of survivors who have experienced sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking.

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This month I celebrated my one-year anniversary as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University! This is an amazing university.

In the spirit of transparency I’m launching the Provost’s Weekly Update (online at http://provost.vcu.edu/engage/news-and-updates/provost-updates/) to provide regular updates on activities within academic affairs at VCU as well as current issues or events related to academic affairs. I hope that, in addition to keeping you better informed, this communications approach will encourage discussions with me, the academic leadership team and each other. Remember, you can always contact me through email (provost@vcu.edu) and via Twitter (@VCUprovost).

The annual Presidential Awards for Community Multicultural Enrichment recognize contributions and efforts made toward enhancing the goals of inclusive excellence and VCU’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

PACME Award categories

Administrator award: Administrators and those who hold professional faculty appointments are eligible

Since 1982, VCU has paid formal tribute at Convocation to members of the faculty who support our mission with distinction and exemplify what is best about the University.

Distinguished faculty AWARD CATEGORIES

Distinguished Teaching Award – One award of $3,500 and a non-monetary gift.
A recipient of this award should be recognized as being an outstanding
teacher. This may be evidenced by being an inspiration to students, by
utilizing stimulating techniques, materials and methods designed to
promote learning, by outstanding attention to the development of
curriculum, learning materials and teaching strategies, by serving in a
teaching capacity outside the classroom and University or by any
combination of the above.

Distinguished Scholarship Award – One award of $3,500 and a non-monetary gift.
A recipient of this award should be recognized as an outstanding scholar,
as scholarship is defined in his/her discipline. The individual should
have demonstrated a pattern of productive scholarly activity which has
been recognized nationally or internationally, as appropriate.
Traditional research, creative endeavors and other scholarly activity are
included in this category.

Distinguished Service Award – One award of $3,500 and a non-monetary gift.
A recipient of this award should have performed superior service to the
University, the profession and/or the wider community. This may be
evidenced by activities which extend beyond normal expectations,
unique contributions or long-standing leadership and impact on the
University and beyond

Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award – One award of $3,500 and a non-monetary gift.
Open to all full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty at the rank of
Associate Professor, and below. A recipient of this award should have been in rank at VCU, or at another institution, for a total of five years or less. A recipient of this award should have achieved superior accomplishment consistent with the Quest for Distinction, and in the areas of teaching, research and scholarship, and service.

Outstanding Term Faculty Award – One award of $3,500 and a non-monetary gift.
Open to all part-time or full-time (or collateral or adjunct) faculty at the
rank of Instructor and higher who have at least three consecutive years
of employment at VCU. A recipient of this award should have achieved superior accomplishment consistent with the Quest for Distinction, and in the areas of teaching and service.

University Award of Excellence – One award of $5,000 and a non-monetary gift.
A recipient of this award should have performed in a superior manner in
teaching, scholarly activity and service as described above. This award is
one of the highest honors the University can bestow on one of its faculty
and is awarded only to an exceptional individual.

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WTVR has some great coverage of Higher Education Advocacy Day this past January and mentions VCU Faculty Senators Carmen Rodriguez and Allen Lee, as well as retired faculty and former Faculty Senate President Bob Andrews.

Other institutions represented at Higher Education Advocacy Day included Norfolk State University, George Mason, James Madison, Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Mary Washington, the University of Richmond, Randolph-Macon College and the College of William and Mary.